oh, yes, john mccain's racist theme has been picked up steam and regurgitated not just by people on nbc, "the washington post" editorial pointed out something astonishing to me, of the 90 people who signed the letter objecting to susan rice's nomination or potential nomination as secretary of state, 80 of them were male and about half of them came from states that used to have slaves a hundred years ago, and this was-- when this kind of reasoning gets into the mainstream media, we've got problems. >> jon: you know, the accusation directed the at senator mccain in particular, who voted to approve colin powell as secretary of state and condoleezza rice as secretary of state. >> it's trshgs do you have remember that john mccain used to be the darling of the left and he's been somebody always, front and center on immigration reform, not usually something racists do, and you know, now, suddenly, we're told that this man who as been in the public eye for as long as i've been alive, i feel like, is suddenly a racist and they have no problem saying that and this is an extremely toxic and danger